Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-29
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


in the Southeast portion of the State.
The associated charities idea is being
agitated in st. Joseph, and an organiza.
ton will soon be effected.
In the Cole County Circuit Court re-
Gently blind negro named Henry billiard
was sentenced to the penitent:ary for two
years for stealing lard and meat from the
penitentiary butcher-shop. Although to
tally blind, billiard is a professional thief
and has served several sentences in the
penitentiary.
The safe of the Farmers and Traders
Bank at Lathrop, Clinton County, was
blown up by burglars few nights ago in
an attempt to rob it. The vault was
opened by means of skeleton key, the
safe door was blown open, the combina-
ton being entirely destroyed and the safe
badly wrecked, though the inside door
could not be opened. Valuable papers in
the vault were badly damaged and the
vault walls greatly injured. The burglars
obtained no money, owing to their inabili
ty to open tine inner door.
George r. Mann, the local supervising
architect of the st. Joseph Gus.
tom house building, in process OF
erection, returned recently from
Washington, where he had gone te
A. Ferret, on account of a mistake made
in the office of the Government Architect
in computing the pres sure on the founda.
ton. A weight of eight tons to the square
foot is now resting on the foundation un-
der the tower. 1t will be necessary to
tear down the Edmonds and Eighth street
fronts, necessitating an additional ex.
penditure of about So, 600.
Civil service examinations for depart
mental service in Washington will be
held in this State as follows: Springfield
Thursday, March %; Kansas City, Satur.
day, March "a; st. Louis, Tuesday, March
81; st. Louis. Saturday, September 1 !;
Kansas City, Friday, October 26.
The st. Louis sugar refinery has started
up again with three hundred and fifty
men. 1t was closed fourteen months.
Editor Henry w. Grady, of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Constitution, has promised the man
ayers of the st. Louis local option CAM
paign to make two or three temperance
addresses in that city some time before
the holding of the local option cleo ton.
vudolp phi Mackwitz, Belgian Consul for
st. Louis, died a few days since of liver
complaint. He was sixty years old, and
had been bedridden about six weeks.
The 800, 900 damage suit of Expire ss
against the Adams Express Company.
which was to have been tried in the United
States Circuit Court in st. Louis, last
week, was continued by order of the court.
No particular date was named.
The Maggard contest of the local option
law, which was decided by the Supreme
Court, is not ended. Maggard's attorneys
say they will file motion for new trial
and appeal the case on constitutional
points to the United States Supreme
Court; this after they had reviewed the
decision.
A car on the Fifth street line in ST.
Louis, while attempting to cross Poplar
street ahead of Missouri Pacific engine
few days ago, barely escaped annihila-
ton. A German lady, aged seventy years,
jumped off the car through fright and fell
across the track directly in front of the
engine, and she would have been be-
headed and mangled to pieces had not
Officer Dugge jumped from the car and
pulled her from the track just before the
engine passed. The old lady refused to
give her name or address.
The report of the st. Louis Building
Commissioner for the present year, up to
December II, shows the number of brick
and frame houses that have been erected
the city for the said permits, the figures
being as follows: Brick-Permits, 2,144;
cost, $7.:20,S5S; fees. $4.SS9.50. Frame
Permits, S1S: cost. $577,90 fees. S9455 80.
Total, permits, 1862; cost, 81, 79S, 1852, fees,
S., S35.
An accident, which resulted in the
death of Mrs. Mary Scott, negress over
seventy years of age, occurred in st. Louis
a few days ago, at the residence of her
son, Rev. Wyatt Scott. The old lady
started up the stairway and, when within
a few steps of the top, mi ssed her footing
and fell to the bottom, striking her head
against the wall. She. was picked up by
her son, who called physician to exam
inc her injuries, but she died a few
minutes after. She was born in Virginia,
and came to Missouri with her son, who
was pastor of colored church, some
years ago.
Governor Marmaduke will give chill
ems party on the 2Sth inst. at the
xecutive Mansion, Jefferson City. 1t is
expected that about three hundred chill
DIR ell from various parts of the State will
be in attendance at the ball. The mans ion
has been especially decorated for the oc-
casion when the Governor will gather his
little friends about him in his bachelor
home. Full dress will not be required, as
every occasion for rivalry between the
children will be avoided
Among the patents recently issued to
Missouri inventors are the foil owing:
Geo. w. Raldridge, st. Louis, type.
writing machine: James Bewsher, Kan
sas City, steam boiler safety plug; VIM.
M. Eccles, assignor of one-half to A. S.
Bridges, st. Louis, tobacco pipe; John
Ferguson, Kansas City, cut off and de-
livery table for brick machine: jonathan
P. Ferrenburg, La Forge, shingle ma
chine; Fred. E. H Goodnow. Sprin gfield,
piano tuning pin; John B. Hevering, st.
Louis, cable railway grip; Reinhard
Benton City, hedge trimming
Marion R. Jenkins, assignor of
one-half to w. j. McCray and B. D. Boil
ing, Browning, hay loader and stacker;
s. Liveugood, assignor of two
thirds to c. L. Ballantine aud H. W. Lev
Kansas City, baling press; John
ic accessory; Chas. H. Toundorf, as.
signor to H. Kuhn and NJ. A. Seed Dry
Plate Company, st. Louis, Photographic
negative; Presley d. Vandeventer, Sails
bury, express car; Arthur p. Wade, Cedar
City, combined potato digging and har-
vestng machine.
The new year is almost upon US.
An unknown man, six feet tall ana
200 pounds, was killed by the
st. Joseph express on the Missouri Pacific
at haywood, Lewis County, few days
ago. His head was completely mashed
and both arms and both legs were broken.
There was nothing to indicate his iden-
tity.
The event in st. Joseph secret society
circles for the year occurred few even
Masonic fraternity in that city, who have
taken the Scottish Rite or Knight TempIar